Key Research and Graduate Research Areas
in Linguistics
The research strengths of this program are represented below. We welcome applications from prospective PhD and MA students wishing to conduct research on or related to the following key areas.
Australian Aboriginal Languages (Heather Bowe, Alice Gaby)
Austronesian (Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Bi-/Multilingualism (Julie Bradshaw, Jim Hlavac, Louisa Willoughby)
Classroom discourse (Julie Bradshaw)
Cognitive Linguistics (Keith Allan, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts)
Data management for linguistic field work / archiving of linguistic data (Andrew Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Discourse analysis (Keith Allan, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
First language acquisition (Anna Margetts)
Germanic linguistics (Kate Burridge, Louisa Willoughby)
Health and communication (Alice Gaby, Julie Bradshaw, Simon Musgrave)
History and philosophy of linguistics (Keith Allan)
Jargon (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Language change (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
Language contact (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Alice Gaby, Jim Hlavac, Louisa Willoughby)
Language policy (Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Language variation ( Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Simon Musgrave, Louisa Willoughby)
Linguistic taboo, euphemism, dysphemism, (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Morpho-syntax (Kate Burridge, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave)
Papuan languages (Anna Margetts)
Pennsylvania German (Kate Burridge, Louisa Willoughby)
Pragmatics (Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Keith Allan)
Second language acquisition (Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Semantics (Keith Allan, Alice Gaby)
Sociolinguistics (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw, Louisa Willoughby)
Structure and history of English (Kate Burridge)
Swearing, insult (Keith Allan, Kate Burridge)
Typology (Kate Burridge, Alice Gaby, Anna Margetts, Simon Musgrave
World Englishes (Kate Burridge, Julie Bradshaw)
Please note that LCL academics frequently co-supervise MA and PhD projects located in programs other than their own. If you intend to work on a project that straddles this and another discipline, we will organize the necessary complement of research expertise to meet your supervision needs.